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S. B. No. 80As Passed by the SenateAs Passed by the Senate
124th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2001-2002 |
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SENATORS Harris, Amstutz, Herington, Mead, Spada
A BILL
To amend section 1547.08 of the Revised Code to limit
the prohibition against operating a vessel at
greater than idle speed or at a speed that creates
a wake within three hundred feet of certain dock
and harbor areas to vessels operating on Lake Erie
or the Ohio River.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 1547.08 of the Revised Code be
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 1547.08. (A) No person shall operate a vessel within
or through a designated bathing area or within or through any
area
that has been buoyed off designating it as an area in which
vessels are prohibited. (B)(1) No person shall operate a vessel at greater than idle
speed or at a speed that creates a wake
within
under any of the
following circumstances: (a) Within three hundred feet
of any marina, boat docking
facility, boat gasoline dock, launch
ramp, recreational boat
harbor, or harbor entrance, or during
on Lake Erie or on the Ohio
river; (b) During the period
from sunset to sunrise according to
local time within any
water between the Dan Beard bridge and the
Brent Spence bridge on the
Ohio river for any vessel not
documented by the United States coast guard as
commercial, or
within; (c) Within any area buoyed or marked as a no wake area
on
the waters in this state. (2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not
apply in
any
either of the following places: (a)
The Muskingum river unless the river is marked by a buoy
or sign as a
no wake or idle speed area; (b) Any other
An area designated by
the chief of the
division of watercraft unless it is marked by a
buoy or sign as a
no wake or idle speed area;
(c)(b) Within any water between the Dan Beard
bridge and the
Brent Spence bridge on the Ohio
river when the United States coast
guard has authorized the
holding of a special event of a community
nature on that water.
(C) No person shall operate a vessel in any area of
restricted or controlled operation in violation of the designated
restriction. (D) No person shall operate a vessel within three hundred
feet of an official diver's flag unless the person is
tendering
the diving operation. (E) All areas of restricted or controlled operation as
described in division (A) of this section or as provided for in
section 1547.14 or 1547.61 of the Revised Code shall be marked by
a buoy or sign designating the restriction. All waters
surrounded
by or lying between such a buoy or sign and the
closest shoreline
are thereby designated as an area in which the
designated
restrictions shall apply in the operation of any
vessel. Markings on buoys designating areas of restricted or
controlled operation shall be so spaced as to show all around the
horizon. Lineal spacing between the buoys shall be such that
under normal conditions of visibility any buoy shall be readily
visible from the next adjacent buoy. No colors or symbols,
except
as provided for in rules of the chief, shall be used on
buoys or
signs for marking closed or
controlled areas of boating waters. Any state department, conservancy district, or political
subdivision having jurisdiction and control of impounded boating
waters may place such buoys or signs on its waters. Any
political
subdivision may apply to the chief for permission to
place such
buoys or signs on
other waters within its territorial limits. No
person shall
place or cause to
be placed a regulatory buoy or sign
on, into, or along the waters
in this
state unless the person has
complied with all the provisions of
this chapter. (F) No person shall permit any vessel to be operated on the
waters in this state in violation of this section.
Section 2. That existing section 1547.08 of the Revised Code
is hereby repealed.
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